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Monday, March 15, 2010
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Krishna Prabhu, a Harvard junior, talks Thursday after a Harvard Yard protest against Harvard drug-patent policies — the source of his “Say Yes to Drugs” T-shirt. (Photo: Marc Levy)At a party school, a rally with students wearing “Say Yes to Drugs” T-shirts would be funny; at Harvard, Thursday’s 150-person protest and their shirts were in deadly earnest — raising a cry against severe patent restrictions in developing nations that keep inexpensive drugs from those who need it most.
If fresh food from local farms cooked for you and served to you sounds good, it sounds like you need dinner at the Flying Zucchini Café.
School Committee member Joe Grassi has concerns about Cambridge class size, enrollment and a trend toward self-segregation through controlled choice.Nothing much seemed to happen Tuesday with the School Committee, but there was a lot going on, and some of it was downright disturbing.
Shoppers flock to Salmagundi hats in December at the Design Hive fashion market at Cambridge's Maria L. Baldwin School. A rent increase on Design Hive is likely to force it out. (Photo courtesy: Val Fox)A sudden rise in rent is forcing the popular Design Hive fashion market to move from a Cambridge school and possibly end, unseating dozens of vendors and disappointing hundreds of shoppers.
A proposal to name part of the new Main Library after the late storyteller Brother Blue prodded the City Council into voting Monday to explore its habit — some would say compulsion — of honoring residents by naming things after them.
The Somerville News is about to challenge the Cambridge Chronicle, first online, then in print.Cambridge is about to get another newspaper. The Somerville News is expanding into Cambridge as Cambridge News Weekly, according to a request for inclusion on press releases that was e-mailed today to Cambridge city officials.
When I was in high school, it was unlikely the drama students could attract enough watchers into the auditorium for two or three shows of a production. Yet Cambridge Rindge & Latin School has no less than five shows of the musical “Once Upon a Mattress” this weekend.
Trader Joe’s in Fresh Pond has opened, packing the shared parking lot solid and drawing a steady stream of shoppers.
Instead of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2010 — the goal of a Climate Protection Plan adopted three years ago — the city believes it has increased its emissions by at least 17 percent. Next month, the city is trying again.
Cambridge Savings Bank surveillance cameras captured these images of an unarmed bank robber at 1:03 p.m. today. Police are asking help in finding him.Cambridge police are searching for the robber of the Harvard Square Cambridge Savings Bank. The unarmed robbery took place just after 1 p.m., committed by a young man — said to be in his early 20s — in a blue Red Sox cap and dark-colored jacket.
The staff of the Flying Zucchini Café ready servings for patrons last year. The annual event takes place tonight and Thursday.
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